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Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty fierce, hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life.

BLOOD, BONES & BUTTER follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she learned the essence of hospitality; Hamilton’s own kitchen at Prune; and the kitchen of her Italian mother-in-law, who serves as the link between Hamilton’s idyllic past and her own future family.